Overview

• The Penguins and Oak View Group will recognize David Blackburn on Saturday night with an in-game tribute on his 90th birthday.
• He will receive an honorary Key to the Arena along with a proclamation from the City of Pittsburgh.
• Blackburn began as an usher and ticket taker in 1961 at the Civic Arena and has logged 64 years of service.
• He continues to work each week despite health-related mobility challenges, with family providing rides and a coworker assisting with a wheelchair.
• Oak View Group executive Gary Desjardins called him “part of the soul of this building,” while Blackburn says he has no plans to retire.